💻 App Tamer, Fact or Fiction?

If you have a lot of open apps, and a lot of apps running in the background and menu bar, you might need App Tamer by St. Clair Software. App Tamer is a tool designed to help control resource hungry apps, throttle background apps, and even shut down apps when they go idle. But, is such a tool necessary? macOS does a fine job of managing and controlling apps. Apps that are native to the new M1 Apple Silicon should run great right? On my system, an old Intel, Mac Pro, with a dozen apps open at any one time, plus another dozen in the menu bar, lots of things are trying to use resources when in the background. Some times it’s not the apps you think. For example, if you push your browser to the background, should it keep using the same resources it did when it was in the fore? If you’re streaming videos yes, but if you’re […]